120 NOCTTTIDJE. 



black line -which is oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 inwardly oblique ; a diffused oblique postmedial blackish bar from 

 costa ; subterminal line whitish with wedge-shaped black streaks 

 before it forming a diffused patch on costal area running out 

 obliquely to apex with some whitish points on it at costa, the streak 

 in discal fold extending almost to discoidal spot, the line excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 yellowish tinged with rufous at apex. Hind wing ochreous suffused 

 with reddish brown, the terminal area darker; an indistinct oblique 

 dark medial line ; a fine dark terminal line ; the underside ochreous 

 tinged with brown and slightly irrorated with black, a black dis- 

 coidal spot on a diffused curved brown medial line, a punctiform 

 blackish terminal line. 



$ • Much darker, the thorax, abdomen and wings suffused with 

 dark brown. 



I/ah. N. Nigeria, Borgu, Yelwa L. (Migeod), 3 J : Mashonaland, 

 Umtali (Marshall), 1 r? : Transvaal, Piet lietief (Crawshay), 3 6 ; 

 Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 1 <3 ,2 $ . Exp. 20-26 millim. 



5149. Eublemma nigrivitta. (Plate CLII. fig. 3.) 

 Eiiblemma nigrivitta, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 421 (1902). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with dark brown ; the head 

 browner ; abdomen pale greyish dorsally suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; pectus and legs irrorated with brown, the tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with whitish. Pore wing pale ochreous tinged with rufous, 

 the base of costa and basal half of medial area greyish irrorated with 

 dark brown ; autemedial line blackish, sinuous ; a blackish point 

 in middle of cell and discoidal bar ; medial line black, oblique from 

 costa to just beyond the cell, slightly incurved at discal fold, excurved 

 beyond lower angle of cell, then incurved and again excurved above 

 inner margin ; postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6, then 

 minutely dentate and produced to whitish points on the veins, 

 angled inwards at submedian fold, a greyish and fuscous brown 

 shade beyond it and some pale points on costa; subterminal line 

 represented by a fine minutely dentate brown line on its outer edge, 

 a small black spot beyond it below costa and a short streak in discal 

 fold ; a fine blackish terminal line ; cilia ochreous tinged with rufous 

 and mixed with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous tinged with brown on 

 inner half, some black irroration along vein 1 ; medial and postmedial 

 blackish lines from below costa to inner margin and traces of two sub- 

 terminal lines ; a fine black terminal line : cilia ochreous mixed 

 with some fuscous ; the underside ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with brown except on inner area, traces of a minutely 

 waved medial line and of a more distinct postmedial line with some 

 black points on it. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the whole basal half suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Hub. Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett), 6 J , 5 $ type. 

 Exp- 24-26 millim. 



